skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall reading that leetcode style questions are basically just a standin for an IQ test, except with plausible deniability for being directly applicable to the job.
> The thinkpad, […], lasts 2 hours.

This echoes my experiences for anything that needs power management. Not just that the battery life is worse, but that it degrades quickly. In two years it’s barely usable. I’ve seen this with non-Apple phones and laptops. iPhone otoh is so good these days you don’t need to upgrade until EOL of ~6 years (and even if you need it battery is not more expensive than any other proprietary battery). My last MacBook from 2011 failed a couple of years ago only because of a Radeon GPU inside with a known hw error.

> There are niceties about Linux too.

Yes! If you haven’t tried in years, the Linux desktop experience is awesome (at least close enough) for me – a dev who CAN configure stuff if I need to but find it excruciatingly menial if it isn't related to my core work. It’s really an improvement from a decade ago.
Too bad DoorDash is exempt
Littering, poaching
> Catalan independence organization, Democratic Tsunami

OK, I think I grokked this. You might think that a Greco-Nipponese name for this organization poorly conveys Catalan nationalist pride. But in fact it quite effectively says "anything but Spanish". That's almost certainly the gag.
The M4 was announced with the iPad Pro that uses it.
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Induced demand is a thing, build more roads get more traffic. Roads are physically incapable of scaling to demand.
Agree with this, which is why I find federated networks (fediverse and nostr) to be the most relevant into the future.
Where should I click to get to the webpage of the QR creator? I clicked here and there, but I don't find the links to outside your website.

Did you chack that those QR are scaneable? The pasta QR looks very bad to scan.
But we're talking about "seems competent and has a reasonable chance of being very productive". That's why you're interviewing in the first place. If you don't ask them to demonstrate their competence in any way how do you know they're competent? If they can't "produce" anything during an interview (even something trivial) how do you know they'll be productive? Assuming a complete stranger with no references you can trust.

A month might be too short of a time for certain roles. I think people would be hesitant to take a risk with you if they know this is your policy. I'd would say that at any point where someone is clearly not a fit they should be let go. You might know after a month (if they're terrible), you might know after 6 months, they might progress initially but stall. I think e.g. with new grads it's going to take a little longer in general since they have a pretty long growth trajectory.
The lifetime requirements for a lot of components even with crewed capsules and human-rated launch vehicles is an order of magnitude lower than aircraft.

“An airliner has to survive 13 hours in the air. A rocket only has to survive 13 minutes.”
I’ve been wondering for a while now why ASUS or some other gaming laptop manufacturer doesn’t take one of their flagship gaming laptop motherboards, put some beefy but quiet cooling on it, put it in a pizza-box/console enclosure, and sell it as a silent compact gaming desktop.

A machine like that could still be relatively small but still be dramatically better cooled than even the thickest laptop due to not having to make space for a battery, keyboard, etc.
> It's not a trend, it's just plainly more efficient to have dense population centers.

This is the perfect example of min/maxing society while completely missing the point. We’re not insects, we’re humans. Most people are happier when they have space, space for a family, space for pets, somewhere to grow a garden, a sense of ownership.

Sometimes, efficiency be damned, maybe we should prioritize happiness and well being over trying to stuff the most amount of humans in the smallest space.
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You may be interested in my philosophy on uptime: nine nines is hard, how about eight eights.
I read that book and didn't take away anything from it. It left no impression. Maybe it should give it another try. Can you explain why you think it is so good?
It’s a shame, Bluesky has the best interface of all the newfangled twitter competitors, but like most of the rest of them, the content is just a very specific niche of rage-bait.
I can understand that. I do feel like the reaction I’m sometimes getting is reflexive and not given any thought. My daughter worked at Starbucks for a while, and told me about crappy customers doing this all the time - ordering drinks with questionable modifications and then sending them back when it wasn’t as good as they hoped. Her initial reaction to my steamed cold brew story was that I’m asking for something unusual. For the record, I have never sent back a warmed cold-brew for any reason.

That said, part of what I’m blabbering on about is that I think cold-brew served hot should not be considered off-menu, I don’t think that’s entirely fair. Since cold brew served cold is an assumption in the first place, it seems like hot cold-brew is (or should be considered) just as on-menu as cold-served cold-brew. It’s fine that the assumption exists, I just don’t understand the pushback when I specify warm. I feel like calling a steamed cold-brew off-menu is exaggerating, considering that a) iced coffee exists; b) steaming espresso drinks is extremely common(!); c) many cafes that make espresso drinks essentially offer all combinations of brewing process, coffee, milks of various kinds, and flavorings. It’s so crazy to me to get shit for asking for a steamed cold-brew when something like a Caramel Ribbon Crunch Frappuccino with an Affogato shot and extra espresso exists and isn’t even considered weird or extreme. Maybe some cafes are pushing back against customers with Starbucks expectations, but they still offer a selection like espresso, cortado, mocha, latte, americano, flat white, blah blah blah. It’s like Mexican food, there is a name for every possible permutation of grounds, water, milk, sugar, and heat. Given that they have cold-brew, that they have a steamer, and that serving hot coffee and steaming things are both standard every-day every-order kinds of things, I simply can’t understand why I’d get pushback even if I am asking for something weird. I’m asking for something weird that is completely and trivially doable.

Anyway, you’re right. I know I’m peeing into the wind just a little. It is what it is, which is why it’s a waste of energy to fight it or complain about it. :P
On the other hand i spend my time wondering why people like you think someone should just throw away their ideas simply because there's already someone in the niche.
Accurate crime statistics are discouraged by every police department and Mayor's Office in this country.
> mixture of shovelware and extremely hardcore tech

Citation needed

All I've seen from them in my professional experience is actually legacy mainframe maintenance.. Not shovelware, but very far from hardcore tech.
> but I'd wager that 50%+ of professional developers use MacOS

Ok, I will take that bet against you. If you think it true, then you are living in a bubble. Probably 90% use MS Windows with no choice, because they work in a big enterprise that uses MS Office and Exchange/Outlook. For enterprise email, is there any competition at this point? I don't know any.
> Yes, absolutely. The US does not trust Tiktok because it is Chinese owned, or is it because of privacy concerns, or is it both?

Does it matter what the reason is? It's a foreign government owned media company operating in the US. The Chinese government doesn't have any rights in america. If the government wants to get rid of it, it can. China has nothing to stand on here. They don't even allow uncensored tik-tok in their own country, let alone facebook, etc.
The Heil Talk Box
Rick: OK, Morty, this program runs by spawning a new universe for each parallel subtask, destroying the universes that throw an exception instead of returning a value, and then aggregating the remaining results. Are you ready to experience quantum hyperspatial optimization, Morty? This'll strap a warp drive to the ass of your gamer shit for sure.

Morty: Aw, geez, Rick, I don't think we ought to--

Rick: Nothing ventured, nothing gained, Morty. Let's goooooooooooo!

[He clicks the mouse, and Solitaire comes up]

Rick: Haha, nice. [He starts playing.]

[We are shown a 16x16 grid of the same moment happening in 256 alternate universes.]

Ricks: Nothing ventured, nothing gained, Morty. Let's goooooooooooo!

[They click the mouse.]

Rick 183: Oh, sh--

Rick 39: Jesus Chr--

Rick 201: NO! We've gone too fa--

[237 of the alternate universes disappear in a white-hot light, their squares replaced by static.]
Debian should do.
One perhaps far fetched implication is that too many Americans could become unemployable by the US Govt. the chief concern of clearance interviews is eliminating risk that information about you can be used to gain leverage over you.
I hadn't seen that before (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZKjKaQdW9w) but it's lots of fun. It's nice to be able to see what devices he's fiddling with to get his effects (most of the concert videos don't show the effects pedals and stomp boxes in detail). He's making heavy use of a looper- he can play some notes, capture them, and loop them continuously in the background (he uses to create a whole group of backing music that runs even when he's not playing actively).

I mean if you look at this effects it's not surprising he can get all those tones. He's got multiple signal paths that get split and recombined with various effects applied to one or the other (being played thru speakers that are miked), a Leslie (rotating speaker in a cabinet that adds some interesting warbles), a bunch of different gains with distortion, along with a bunch of "digitech" that does real-time complicated distortion. All of those run in chains so effects compound.

Some day I really want to have the time to build my own guitar similar to his as well as my own pedals. I've spent various bits of time in the background working on related things, but haven't allowed myself to really focus on it, because I tend to get a bit obsessive until I've fully explored my interests.

Here's a nice example of looping to make one instrument sound like many:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsBINddmVcY

and here's a person who runs her harp through various effects pedals (she has a library of them): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Uv7JcnhhI
Susceptible? The whole system is a house of cards.

You don’t need anything exotic like a terrorist attack or a war, you can simply have a power outage and the whole system would collapse if it wasn’t rectified in a couple hours. I like cities but I’m not willingly putting myself into a mouse trap.
Everyone seems to say children should go to libraries more.

At 9, I didn’t need to go to a library—we just had bunch of books at home. Books are cheap, especially second hand. Some of our books were in fact from a library (my mom went, but I never did), so those would rotate.

I suppose the fact that books were physical and I did not have something like TikTok on my phone when I was 9 helped me read whatever was lying around.

As adult I used Kindle for a while but got back to sourcing physical books, even though I have no permanent place and books are difficult to travel with.
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The most novel thing about this is: popularity has soo little to do with technically good/useful/unique
Why is so much effort and money thrown up against these random giants of "popular by chance"? Why not put the same effort and money into trying to make 100 competitors? You might accidentally cause innovation instead of waste
Way back in the mid 90s I helped convert one of the largest auto salvage yards from dumb terminals (Wyse) to NT machines using terminal emulation. The sales folks went from having been limited to physical desk space or multiple terminals to multiplexing serial over Ethernet.

These folks were fast in the TUI but extending them to 2-4x the workspace was an insane productivity booster. This yard ended up being bought out in part to how we managed to extend email and virtual terminal capabilities and was the basis for the footprint of the LKQ brand at the time. I'm not sure how any web app could compete. TUIs are amazing workflow enablers.
I’m not a single operating system guy like you. I use all three professionally. I’ve never had the bizzare struggle you describe.
Importing a common https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSSStyleShe... CSSStyleSheet and adding it inside the web component constructor might help?
I once heard an unsubstantiated claim that federal funding was dependent upon length of the road work. Over-provisioning blocker barrels was a loophole to extend the distance and receive more funding.
@skdh has some takes on this:

https://youtu.be/GerzZ6GDe-0?t=432

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsjgtp9XZxo
macOS is clearly better for linux devs than Windows, given it is unix under-the-hood.

I don't even know what you mean by mouse-select and paste.
> Which is not really useful, because we usually don't have budgets.

The majority of the AAA/AA projects I've worked on have budgets. I'm struggling to think of a project that didn't have a budget.

> Team Meat is just two people, four if you include the producer and the composer, I would very much assume they knew each other fairly well, but there's no meaningful interpretation of AA where Super Meat Boy is an AA game.

Of course you would expect a small indie team of 2-4 to know each other. I'm saying that once you hit AAA size teams that no longer becomes feasible.
I know, I know. You’re right. But… even if it is weird, it is so easy! It’s not really the default assumption that’s frustrating, it’s when I get push-back for a request that is normal and default for other espresso drinks, something trivially doable, something every barista does dozens and dozens of times a day.
”… the first 1.5 miles of the Line will cost more than $100 billion, with the entire project expected to easily clear $2 trillion — more than the GDP of Brazil.”

good lord
So he’s switched to endorsing… Twitter?
There's also a decent written article here: https://www.vintageguitar.com/16339/heil-talk-box/ — after seeing the front page "Wall of Sound" article, I remembered hearing the story behind the Talk Box. I remember Bob Heil (who made the Talk Box a piece of touring gear instead of a studio oddity) was also around in that era and was one of the audio engineers who helped make concert sound more clear and listenable (rather than just throwing more speakers at it).
The shape isn't always right either. Pipe fixtures can be in the wrong spot. Structural pillars can't be removed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2023/cit...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/11/upshot/office...

Note that things such as arcades may need additional power demands that the area isn't sized for (fire risk). Workshops may need added ventilation and woodsheds would require additional power too. A theater type area could have issues with fire codes and occupancy.
There was some mention of retirement in the other thread, which was flagged by unpopular demand, so putting this here.

One way of looking at it, when an organization has more money than it truly needs to be set for the foreseeable future, it gets to retire.

Or it gets to retire any time it wants to after that.

If everybody starts out working their butt off until there is steady financial progress, that's when they have earned the right to slack off "back to normal". Whatever that is, but the slacking off can be an essential recovery process, especially for emergency workers ("firefighters"). Without clear recognition of the role differences, this could set a bad example for production workers or executives, they could drift toward fewer accomplishments. People could end up basically doing less than full-time work while collecting full-time pay. Or even above-market pay.

The kind of bureaucratic thing that has been seen as organizations grow from the bottom up.

It can take a lifetime to get a hold of enough funds for that, other times not so much.

For instance, sometimes financial strength comes more from the work of previous generations. Some organizations have been financially well set before anyone living was even born, in computers IBM was already like that decades ago. Some of today's "pure" financial houses (or their money) go back much further by far. Everybody there does not have to work their butt off to begin with. Many times "no hard work" is supposed to be the hallmark of prosperity, and there can be great pride in this among certain classes. Not that the prosperity starts out being a direct result of production in every venture.

Interestingly, Google, along with Microsoft, would not have had the same initial opportunity if it weren't for IBM having already been "retired" for so many years, decades beforehand. Packed with people who got on board a company having the wherewithal to coast, but their productivity had certainly not dropped to zero, they were very "active retirees" in their "later years".

So in the late 1970's IBM built their most impressive retirement "home" up until that point, and it was up in Boca.

Wrote it off since they were actually working, they had secretly committed to a desktop computer, which they were designing in between trips to the beach.

They were still making something out of nothing and it was hardware, takes a while no matter how you do it, and once it began to take shape it was already too late, they were going to need somebody like Microsoft or the software was going to take forever.

Citrix and Magic Leap, OTOH started out retired in Florida.

Where you're supposed to have money before you go there.
The same can be said for Mastodon/fediverse and that has been languishing apart for the first six months between late 2022 to mid 2023.
One of my early computing regrets is not focusing enough to learn HyperTalk. I was aware of it, but my attention and focus were just a little too wild to allow me to explore it properly. I made lots of stacks that were basic games, but I struggled with sticking with it long enough to finish any. I think if I’d understood what was possible with HyperTalk I could’ve gotten into organizing programming a lot sooner.
They do serve both, and they're different. Close enough for me, so I get the iced coffee cause it costs less and I respond to incentives.
I had this issue with IBM SSO many times. You may have to wait 24-48 hours before it’s resolved for your acct.
Why use ECC? (2015)
I wish vendoring dependencies wasn’t viewed with such suspicion in tech.

I store dependencies in-repo whenever I can get away with it; it eliminates whole classes of devops/CI issues.
Try stopping the flossing and using toothpicks instead. They go in between as well as once they feather out they become tooth brushes. The only things missing are the actually good ingredients of modern toothpaste.

I also do hope that since Covid everyone with bad breath knows they have it. Except for anti maskers I guess.
Enterprises think differently. They want data provenance, privacy, ability to mitigate/transfer risk etc. If IBM is willing to offer that, there will be enterprises that bite.
Honestly? Immersing myself headfirst into Nix/NixOS, which has been fun and worthwhile.. but I’m not convinced it’s really “better,” at least for my needs.

And the fact that it’s ever so slightly easier to build and deploy a NixOS VM from scratch on a Proxmox VE server than to build and deploy a CoreOS VM using Ignition (also on Proxmox).

But it’s probably worth it for me to switch back, at least for now. It takes maybe 10-15 minutes to build a bootable Bluefin fork native container image with GitHub Actions, but a relatively basic NixOS+ Plasma 6 image took closer to 60 minutes and came out to over 8 GB compressed…
what you are describing is a certainly some kind of professional but we should look from a higher vantage point. A professional in any field will ultimately want to customize their tool or make their own tools and that is not possible with ipads or even really software on ipads. It is a massive step backwards to sit in a walled, proprietary garden and claim that these people are productive professionals as if they are comparable to the previous generation of professionals. They may be in some sense but from a more historical, higher viewpoint they all seem herded into tightly controlled, corporate tools that will be taken from them whenever it is convenient for someone else. Ipad users are effectively like vmware users who are just waiting for a Broadcom moment. The price hike will always come eventually, the support will always drop at some point. It is all borrowed time, tools someone else controls and makes. It might be necessary in a world where we all need to make money but to positively support it is something else entirely.
That is hardly a surprise seeing how some of the most histrionic and self-assured, foulmouthed "big" posters from Twitter were the first to seek it out last year.
> I don’t talk while I code. You don’t either.

Speak for yourself
From the best of my recollection, Lowe's runs Linux internally, Costco Is IBM.

Did some work for Lowe's Home improvement and their PXE booting thin clients in the early 2000's.
I like your idea.

And doing it only 2 or 3 layers in height shouldn't be out of reach for most FDM printers while adding significant strength I'd imagine.

But "I'd imagine" and "real world execution" are very different things!
Next week the article will be "Tesla battery fires linked to use of wet towel during charging"
The entire nature of the kill screen in NES Tetris is that the game crashes because the game has written over its stack.
The "split" happens contantly outside the lab/quantum-computer. Just get a geiger counter, the atoms split randomly using a quantum process. Or just get a digital camera, the photons are absorved in the CCD sensor randomly using a quantum process. Or ...
Love that office space. Such a beautiful location to work out of (minus the scrambling for a community desk).
I love that! The context I didn’t put in my top comment but added elsewhere is that this old washed-out dev requires low acidity because regular coffee was causing inflammation in my throat. That’s really all I want, less acid in my coffee, not something fancy. Except that I don’t want it cold, I want it hot like I’ve always had it. Other than that, I’m like you, I’m also perfectly fine with a perfectly average mediocre cup of joe.
XZ Utils Made Me Paranoid
Microdosing caffeine is what happens when you try to go to zero (or think you are) without taking into account that chocolate is everywhere.
This is a question I have wondered all the time (predominantly while stuck in traffic). Frequently wondered if, during rush hour, posted speed limits should be dropped by X to actually increased throughput.

Having not yet read the paper, I am curious if this was factoring in just typical average speed or if lower speeds are also going to have fewer/less severe accidents (accidents having an outsized impact on my road delays).
"Engineers" - ironically the term used in the software industry for people who never standardize anything, solve the same problem solved by other "engineers" over and over again (how many libraries do you need for arrays and vectors and guis and buttons and text boxes and binary trees and sorting, yada yada?) while making the same mistakes and learning the hard way each time, also vehemently argue about software being "art" might like OSX, but even that is debatable. Meanwhile actual Engineers (the ones with the license) the people who need CAD and design tools for building bridges and running manufacturing plants stay far away from OSX.
Reposted with more luck https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40292452